Garment bag



13. 20, 1932. K M RANDOLPH}: 1,891,689

GARMENT BAG Filed Oct. 14, 1931 I I I I I I I I ,I

INVENTOR Patented Dec. 20, 19 32 UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE KING M. RANDOLPH, OF KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR OF FORTY ONE- HUNDREIJTHS TO CAR-Y F. SPENGE, OF KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE GARMENT BAG Application filed October 14, 1931., Serial No. 568,808.

This invention relates to improvements in garment bags, and in general, aims to facilitate the process of placing a garment-in the paper bags commonly used in laundries and cleaning establishments by providing a bag which is so constructed and supported that it drops into the garment-covering position.

In the accompanying drawing of a preferred embodiment of the invention,

19 Fig. 1 is an elevation of the improved bag,

a part of which is shown broken away to disclose the manner in which the string is initially attached to it;

Fig. 2 is an elevation showing the way in which the bag drops into garment-covering position; and

Fig. 3 is a section on line 33 ofFig. 1. The placing of a garment in a paper or similar bag is quite a laborious and tedious process because of'the ease with which garments, freshly laundered or pressed, may be 'vrinkled if wrongly inserted in such bags,

also because of the certainty of tearing the bags it the step is accomplished hurriedly.

In accordance with the invention, I provide a novel bag which when in use effects the placing of a garment inside the bag expediiously, saving time and labor and obviating tearing of the bags.

39 Referring partlcularly to the drawing,

there is shown in Fig. 1 a bag 5, of paper or other mate'dal, which is properly shaped to enclose the particular kind of garments with which it is to be used. The precise manner in which the body of this bag is put together does not enter into this invention; the only essentials being that the bag have an open bottom, as shown, and a top with an aperture in it several inches long. A string 6, preferably knotted so as to be endless, is secured within the bag at point 7, as by paste, glue or by mechanic 1 fastening means, the essential i re being that the iastening'means i-.e way when the weight of a garment is placed on the lower end of the string, which, as shown, projects from the open bottom of the bag. It is also desirable that the string be long enough to extend out through the aperture at the top of the bag, as a shown, and that the attachment of the string stricted to the particular embodiment thereto the bag be such that the bag is not torn when lts connection with the string gives way. NVhlle connection 7 is shown as a loop,

' obviously it may have many forms, the essenstring 6 to dangle below the end of the bag The operator now simply hangs the garment .9, preferably previously placed on a garment hanger 10, upon the lower endof string 6. Immediately connection 7 gives way, and the string straightens out, as shown in Fig.

2. The bag is then unsupported, and moves by gravity down the string until it surrounds the garment, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The garment, fully enclosed by the bag, may be removed by simply unhook ing hanger 10 from the string, and may then 7 be placed in the delivery wagon or wherever desired. I I I The present invention effects an important improvement in present methods of protect; a ing clothes by means of bags, as about or" the time now spent in fussing with bags is saved, or in other Words, an operator can place about ten garments in ten bags in the time now spent inserting a single garment by land in abag. V

Obviously, thepresent invention isnot re- Q of herein shown and described.

What I claim is 1. A garment bag comprising, in combination, a bag having an open bottom and a top which is partly open; and a stringsecured inside the bag intermediate its ends sothat its connection will give wayas soon as any substantial weight is put on the string, without'tearing the'bag; said string being longer lihan the bag, and its connection comprising a 2. A garment bag comprising, in combi nation, a bag having an open bottom and a top which is open at the middle but otherwise closed; and a string secured for a por tion of its length, intermediate its ends, to the bag on the inside by paste or glue; said string b'eing endless and long enough to ex tend out the top of the bag and below the bottom of the bag; and having the secured portion of its length arranged in a shape other than a straight line.

3. A garment bag having openings at its top and bottom; and a string secured intermediate its ends withinthe bag by fastening means which will. readily giye way when a weight is placed on the lower end of the string with the upper end of the string sup-.

ported the string adjacent the points where it is secured to the bagpproviding a surplus length of string permitting the weight to break away the fastening means before the entire length of the string sustains the load ofrthe weight.

Intestimony that I claim the foregoing as my ownylfhave hereto afiixed my signature.

' 'KI'NG M. RANDOLPH. 

